Use After Free Affecting libxml2 package, versions <2.9.4+dfsg1-2.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
4.2% (89th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN12-LIBXML2-1551209
  • published23 Jul 2016
  • disclosed23 Jul 2016

Introduced: 23 Jul 2016

CVE-2016-5131  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:12 libxml2 to version 2.9.4+dfsg1-2.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libxml2 package and not the libxml2 package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:12 relevant fixed versions and status.

Use-after-free vulnerability in libxml2 through 2.9.4, as used in Google Chrome before 52.0.2743.82, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via vectors related to the XPointer range-to function.

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